The War on the Poor w/ Alfie Stirling
Grace and Alfie Stirling, Chief Economist of the New Economics Foundation, dissect the UK Chancellor's spring statement. it looks set to contain very few of the measures that would be necessary to tackle the cost of living crisis (which we discussed last week with Gary Stevenson). Rishi Sunak will say there's no money left to support people forced to choose between eating and heating, but have the Tories grossly underestimated the extent of this crisis, and will it come back to bite them? Check out NEF's report on the subject here: https://neweconomics.org/2022/03/23-4-million-people-unable-to-afford-the-cost-of-living (https://neweconomics.org/2022/03/23-4-million-people-unable-to-afford-the-cost-of-living)You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron (https://www.patreon.com/aworldtowinpod). Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.